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NATIVE AMERICAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Native American" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
person of color; person of colour ((formal) any non-European non-white person)
Domain member category:
war party (a band of warriors who raid or fight an enemy (used especially of Native Americans))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Native American"):
squaw (derogatory terms for an American Indian woman)
sannup (a married male American Indian)
Paleo-American; Paleo-Amerind; Paleo-Indian (a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch)
Eskimo; Esquimau; Inuit (a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo ('eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit ('the people'))
Arawak; Arawakan (a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America)
Aleut; Aleutian (a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska)
Carib; Carib Indian (a member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles)
South American Indian (a member of a native Indian group in South America)
Wakashan (a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language)
Tlingit (a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska)
Shoshone; Shoshoni (a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States)
Salish (a member of a group of North American Indians speaking a Salishan language and living on the northwest coast of North America)
Injun; red man; Redskin ((slang) offensive term for Native Americans)
Pueblo (a member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called 'Pueblos' by the Spanish because they live in pueblos (villages built of adobe and rock))
Penutian (a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages)
Muskhogean; Muskogean (a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages)
Iroquois (any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution)
Hoka; Hokan (a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages)
Haida (a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska)
Creek (any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma)
Coeur d'Alene (a member of an Amerindian people living in northern Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake)
Chickasaw (a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi)
Buffalo Indian; Plains Indian (a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America)
Zapotec; Zapotecan (a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900)
Olmec (a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization centered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC)
Nahuatl (a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico)
Maya; Mayan (a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy)
Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska)
Anasazi (a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings)
Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages
Example:
Indian arrowheads
Synonyms:
Amerind; Amerindic; Indian; Native American
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)
Context examples:
Fruit of the Cranberry plant, a Native American wetland plant, can be consumed whole or made into food products such as jellies and juices.
(Cranberry, NCI Thesaurus)
This study is the first to confirm this association within Hispanic/Latinos, who have shared ancestry that is mixed with European, African and Native American ancestry.
(Study of multiethnic genomes identifies 27 genetic variants associated with disease, National Institutes of Health)
In the 1800s, the buffalo were hunted nearly to extinction not only for their valuable hides but also because many U.S. generals, including President Ulysses S. Grant, believed that removing the buffalo would undermine the economies of many of the Native American tribes that depended on them for food and goods and make it easier to push them onto reservations.
(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)
Scientists have sketched out one of the greatest baby booms in North American history, a centuries-long growth blip among southwestern Native Americans between 500 and 1300 A.D. It was a time when the early features of civilization—including farming and food storage—had matured to a level where birth rates likely exceeded the highest in the world today.
(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)
It is the first time human remains this closely related to the Native American populations have been discovered outside of the US.
(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)
The researchers were able to dismiss a longstanding theory that a group called Paleoamericans existed in North America before Native Americans.
(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)
The team collected data from 49,839 African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native Hawaiian, Native American and people who identified as others and were not defined by those ethnic groups.
(Study of multiethnic genomes identifies 27 genetic variants associated with disease, National Institutes of Health)
It is an important piece in the puzzle of understanding the ancestry of Native Americans as you can see the Kolyma signature in the Native Americans and Paleo-Siberians.
(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)
The new genomic analysis presented in the study has shown that around 8,000 years ago, Native Americans were on the move again, but this time from Mesoamerica into both North and South America.
(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)
Apart from finding new genomic variants, the study assessed whether known disease associations with 8,979 established genomic variants and specific diseases in European ancestry populations could be detected in African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Native American populations.
(Study of multiethnic genomes identifies 27 genetic variants associated with disease, National Institutes of Health)
